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NSA revelations force question: What do we want?
June 10, 2013 11:06 am | by ADAM GELLER, AP National Writer | News | CommentsWe knew that the technology was there. We knew that the law might allow it. As we stood under a security camera at a street corner, connected with friends online or talked on a smartphone equipped with GPS, we knew, too, it was conceivable that we might be monitored.
Yes, manufacturing is back in the U.S.
June 10, 2013 10:56 am | by Harry Moser, Contributor | Blogs | CommentsPD&D Executive Editor David Mantey recently published the article “Is It Possible to Bring Manufacturing Back to the U.S.?” The article offers some good insight on the reshoring debate, as well as some common misinterpretation of the subject. Mr. Mantey and his subject Mr. Young acknowledge that reshoring, or not offshoring, has become a viable alternative in the consciousness of the business world.
'One giant leap' toward a NASA Armstrong center?
June 10, 2013 10:37 am | by ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer | News | CommentsNeil Armstrong's name is attached to a lunar crater, an asteroid, more than a dozen schools and a museum, but not a single NASA facility is christened in honor of the man whose "giant leap" made him the first to walk on the moon. All that could soon change on the fringes of the Mojave Desert...
Denials in surveillance program require decoding
June 10, 2013 10:29 am | by MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer | News | CommentsGoogle CEO Larry Page and Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg are denying reports that depict two of the Internet's most influential companies as willing participants in a secret government program that gives the National Security Agency unfettered access to email and other personal information transmitted on various online services.
Display system comes with a controller-only option
June 10, 2013 10:21 am | Product Releases | CommentsParker’s Electromechanical Automation Division announces the release of the next generation of its Parker Factory Display (PFD) visualization system. PFD offers unprecedented flexibility and impact for delivering critical messages to associates on the factory floor.
Leak of NSA programs tests US, China ties
June 10, 2013 10:14 am | by GILLIAN WONG, Associated Press | News | CommentsA day after the presidents of China and the United States ended their first summit, pledges of cooperation by the two leaders faced an early test from an unexpected quarter -- an American intelligence contractor was leaking highly sensitive U.S. surveillance programs from his hiding place in the Chinese territory of Hong Kong.
Source module features -134 dBc/Hz phase noise at 10 KHz offset
June 10, 2013 10:08 am | Crystek Crystal | Product Releases | CommentsCrystek Microwave announces the release of a 2 GHZ RF Source, the CRFS75-2000. Crystek designed the module using proprietary circuitry and SAW (surface acoustic wave) resonator technology to provide ultra-low jitter/phase noise performance with true SineWave output.
Engineering Newswire 41: New suits designed for 'space diving'
June 10, 2013 9:53 am | Videos | CommentsHi-tech inventors at Solar System Express and biotech designers Juxtopia are collaborating on a suit set to release in 2016, which will allow adrenaline junkies to space dive from up to 62 miles above the Earth's surface - at the very edge of space - and safely land using thruster boots instead of a parachute.
The Internet can control your body
June 10, 2013 9:39 am | by Stephanie Carmichael, Contributor | Blogs | CommentsThe Internet really can do anything. Like telekinesis, for instance. It’s got that covered, too. A new open API called BodyRemote uses connected devices like computers and even iPhones to control someone’s body from across the great space of the Internet anywhere in the world. But to do good — promise!
Securing the cloud
June 10, 2013 12:00 am | by Massachusetts Institute of Technology | News | CommentsHomomorphic encryption is one of the most exciting new research topics in cryptography, which promises to make cloud computing perfectly secure. With it, a Web user would send encrypted data to a server in the cloud, which would process it without decrypting it and send back a still-encrypted result. Sometimes, however, the server needs to know something about the data it’s handling. Otherwise, some computational tasks become prohibit...
Music service, mobile software expected from Apple
June 9, 2013 11:24 am | by ANICK JESDANUN - AP Technology Writer - Associated Press | News | CommentsA digital radio service and changes to the software behind iPhones and iPads are among the features expected Monday as Apple opens its annual conference for software developers in San Francisco. Apple is expected to unveil a simplified look to iOS, the software that runs iPhones and iPads. If the...
Microsoft, HP make laptop pitch to Maine educators
June 8, 2013 10:46 am | by DAVID SHARP - Associated Press - Associated Press | News | CommentsRepresentatives of Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard are making the rounds to build support as Maine educators decide which laptops or tablets they're going to provide to more than 70,000 middle and high school students this fall. Microsoft Education's chief technology officer Cameron Evans...
Denials in surveillance program require decoding
June 7, 2013 8:22 pm | by MICHAEL LIEDTKE - AP Technology Writer - Associated Press | News | CommentsGoogle CEO Larry Page and Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg are denying reports that depict two of the Internet's most influential companies as willing participants in a secret government program that gives the National Security Agency unfettered access to email and other personal...
Addressing the data deluge challenge in mobile networks with intelligent content caching
June 7, 2013 3:31 pm | by Seong Hwan Kim, Ph.D., Technical Marketing Manager, LSI | Articles | CommentsThe most recent IDC Predictions 2013: Competing on the 3RD Platform report forecasts the biggest driver of IT growth to once again be mobile devices (smartphones, tablets, e-readers, etc.), generating around 20 percent of all IT purchases....
Fusing resistors feature temperature protection
June 7, 2013 2:16 pm | Koa Speer Electronics, Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsKOA Speer announced its TPR Series temperature protection fusing resistors. The resistors safely interrupt open circuits up to AC250 V voltage and completely isolate the circuit after quickly fusing to the overload. These fusing resistors feature
